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B. A. SGHLEY.

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N0. 541,886. Patented July 2, 1895.

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MILWAUKEE, WISCGNSIN.

HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,886, dated July 2,1895.

Application filed June 1, 1893.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ELEANOR A. SCHLEY, of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Hooks for Dress- Shields, of which the following is adescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which area part of this specitication.

My invention relates to hooks adapted for securing dress shieldsdetachably to a garment, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figurel representsa shield in position on a garment andmy improved hook, showing the method of securing the shield to thegarment therewith. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a dress shield, providedwith my hook for securing it to a garment. Fig. 3 is a sectional detailshowing the improved hook and illustrating the method of attaching theshield to a garment.

The shield which is preferably made of rubber cloth or other flexiblematerial impervious to moisture, consists of two flaps A and B foldedtogether medially on the line a. The

shield in its folded form is to be secured to a garment G over the seamand adjacent parts at the arm hole, and it is desirable that the shieldshould be provided with means for readily securing it to thegarment-,and for conveniently detaching it therefrom, so that the shieldmay be used interchangeably with several garments as occasion requires.For this purpose I provide a small metal hook O constructed integrallyof elastic or resilient wire and comprising a shank c, a curved part, abill a substantially parallel with the shank, a terminal inwardly turnedpoint 0 arranged at an obtuse angle to the bill a, the extremity ofwhich point is adapted by reason of its angle to the bill, to retain thebill in the material through which it is inserted, and is arranged tocontact with the ring or loop guard 0 formed at the extremity of theshank c, the guard being disposed at a right angle to and in the planeof motion of the bill toward and from the shank, whereby the point, whenthe bill is forced toward the shank engaged by the guard and is therebyprevented from passing rearwardly beyond or athwart the guard, thusobviating the possibility of the point of Serial No. 476,239. (Nomodel.)

proper points by stitching or cementing the edges of the tags to theshield.

If the material of which the shield is comthe pins may be inserteddirectly therein withoutthe use of tags, but ordinarily the tags arepreferred.

The hook is secured to the shield byinsertingitspointunderthetag,thrustingitthrough the tag and drawing the hook intoplace so that the shank is beneath the tag or between it and the shield,the bill and point being outside of the tag over the shank and guard.

To attach the shield to a garment the shield is put in place in thegarment and the bills of the hooks are inserted in the garment in themanner shown in Fig. 3 the angular point serving to prevent the hookfrom escaping from the garment. Four of these hooks will ordifiarilysuffice to properly secure a shield preferred.

My improved hook is especially intended and adapted for use inconnection with dress shields as. hereinbefore described, but as a bookof this construction is also adapted for analogous purpose other thanwith dress shields I purpose that it shall be constructed independentlyand placed on the market as an article of manufacture.

I do not wish to limit the invention to a guardin the form of a ring, asany form of guard adapted to receive the thrust of the sharp point,would be within my invention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an article of manufacture, a hook for a dressshield, or analogoususe, comprising a substantially straight shank, adapted to be secured toa shield, a bend, a bill having a free inwardly-turnedobliquely-disposed terminal point continuous of the bill, said billadapted to engage the garment, and thereby secure the shield, or otherarticle, thereto,

to the under surface of the dress shield at posed is of sufficientthickness and strength in place but a greater number may be used if andthe point adapted to be passed entirely through the garment and retainthe bill in I In testimony whereof I affix my signature said garment,and a guard at the extremity in presence of two witnesses. of the shankadapted to receive the contact of the terminal point, when the bill ismoved ELEANOR A. SOHLEY. 5 laterally toward the shank, and thereby pre-Witnesses:

vent the point from passing beyond or athwart C. T. BENEDICT,

of the guard, substantially as set forth. ANNA V. FAUsT.

